Systems and methods for analyzing facial expressions, identifying intent and transforming images through review of facial expressions
View Patent ↗Methods of analyzing a plurality of facial expressions are disclosed that include: identifying a subject person, utilizing the subject person to create an image of a known target, removing at least one distracter expression from the target image to form a revised target image, and reviewing the revised target image with at least one third party participant to form a final target image. Additional methods of analyzing a plurality of facial expressions include: identifying a subject person, utilizing the subject person to create an image of a known target, digitizing the target image, removing at least one distracter expression from the target image to transform the target image to a revised target image, and reviewing the revised target image with at least one third party participant to transform the revised target image to a final target image. Software for implementing contemplated methods include: a set speed function, a pre-test phase function, an instruction phase function, a practice phase function, and a post-test phase function.
1. A method of creating and analyzing a plurality of facial expressions, comprising:
identifying a subject person,
utilizing the subject person to create an image of a known target,
removing at least one distracter expression from the target image to form a revised target image,
reviewing the revised target image with at least one third party participant to form a final target image;
presenting, by a computer, a user with multiple target images depicting a facial expression, wherein the multiple target images include images of dangerous intent and images of non-dangerous intent, and wherein the multiple target images include the final target image;
receiving, by the computer, a response from the user, wherein the response indicates whether or not the facial expression depicted in each target image of the multiple target images depicts a dangerous intent facial expression;
determining, by the computer, whether the response is correct or incorrect;
tracking, by the computer, a total number of correct and incorrect responses from the user; and
displaying, by the computer, the total number of correct and incorrect responses to the user.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subject person is a crime victim.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the crime victim is an assault victim.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the known target is the criminal.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the criminal is an attacker.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising identifying at least one key feature in the final target image that depicts target intent.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the target intent comprises dangerous intent.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising comparing the final target image to at least one comparison image.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein utilizing the subject person to create an image of a known target includes digitizing the image.
10. A method of creating and analyzing a plurality of facial expressions, comprising:
identifying a subject person,
utilizing the subject person to create a target image of a known target,
digitizing the target image,
removing at least one distracter expression from the target image to transform the target image to a revised target image,
reviewing the revised target image with at least one third party participant to transform the revised target image to a final target image;
presenting, by the computer, a user with multiple target images depicting a facial expression, wherein the multiple target images include images of dangerous intent and images of non-dangerous intent, and wherein the multiple target images include the final target image;
receiving, by the computer, a response from the user, wherein the response indicates whether or not the facial expression depicted in each target image of the multiple target images depicts a dangerous intent facial expression;
determining, by the computer, whether the response is correct or incorrect;
tracking, by the computer, a total number of correct and incorrect responses from the user; and
displaying, by the computer, the total number of correct and incorrect responses to the user.
11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the subject person is a crime victim.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the crime victim is an assault victim.
13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the known target is the criminal.
14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the criminal is an attacker.
15. The method of claim 10 , further comprising identifying at least one key feature in the final target image that depicts target intent.
16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the target intent comprises dangerous intent.
17. The method of claim 10 , further comprising comparing the final target image to at least one comparison image.
18. The method of claim 10 , wherein utilizing the subject person to create an image of a known target includes digitizing the image.
19. An executable software for implementing the method of one of claim 1 or 10 , embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the executable software comprising:
a set speed function, a pre-test phase function, an instruction phase function, a practice phase function, and
a post-test phase function.
20. A system comprising a computer for executing the executable software of claim 11 .
21. A method of analyzing a plurality of facial expressions, comprising:
presenting, by a computer, a user with multiple target images depicting a facial expression, wherein the multiple target images include images of dangerous intent and images of non-dangerous intent;
receiving, by the computer, a response from the user, wherein the response indicates whether or not the facial expression displayed in each target image of the multiple target images depicts a dangerous intent facial expression;
determining, by the computer, whether the response is correct or incorrect;
tracking, by the computer, a total number of correct and incorrect responses from the user; and
displaying, by the computer, the total number of correct and incorrect responses to the user.
22. The method of claim 21 , further comprising:
providing the user with instructions for identifying dangerous intent facial expressions, wherein the instructions comprise a depiction of dangerous intent facial expressions, and wherein the instructions contrast the dangerous intent facial expression depictions with a depiction of distracter facial expressions.